Project Wild Gambia: Turtle headstarting facility

Hi everyone!

I have started this page to help Project Wild Gambia and CETAG make improvements to their turtle head starting facility on Gunjur beach, Gambia.

Currently just a single pool, the facility is home to four beautiful green sea turtles, but is in desperate need of some improvements. This includes a sky light to give them more natural light to grow healthily, and a wall needs to be built to keep them safe. There have already been some attempts by people to steal them...

All donations made will go directly towards helping to fund this work.

Why you should donate:

This is a cause that goes much further than just helping to conserve sea turtles...

Gunjur beach, where the head starting facility is located, is home to a Chinese owned fishmeal factory which is robbing the livelihoods of this Gambian fishing community.

The factory directly competes with local fishers for one of the countries most important protein sources; Bonga fish.

Its presence has caused fish stocks to collapse, fish prices to rise, and with people's livelihoods drying up, human trafficking is booming.

Gunjur has lost 500 youths this year alone attempting to cross on boats to Europe. With no news, all are feared dead.

Ecotourism development in this community could help diversify incomes and provide jobs and an alternative source of income for people where it is so desperately needed. At the same time, the development of this facility will help bolster sea turtle populations.

If you want to learn more about this issue, please listen to the podcast I produced covering this topic as part of my Voyage to the Wild series.

LISTEN NOW: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/7531a84c-dab0-482b-abe1-aa23457d4ce0

Any and all donations will go a long way to helping both sea turtles and the people of Gunjur.